French President Nicolas Sarkozy is holding a rare meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Saturday, believing he can secure a role for France in the ever-elusive quest for peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors before a new U.S.
Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99.
President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.
Three Americans freed after being held more than five years by rebels in Colombia gave thanks Saturday and urged people to not forget other hostages who were left behind. The three men are heading home to Florida after about 10
North Korea agreed to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear disarmament in a deal reached Saturday at the end of six-nation talks.
Violence in Iraq is at its lowest level in four years, but ask Capt. Mike Forbes, and he will tell you his job as a troop commander in Baghdad has gotten harder, not easier.
A soldier fatally shot a South Korean tourist Friday at a resort inNorth Korea, prompting the South to suspend a high-profile tourismprogram just as the president was seeking to repair strained ties withhis communist neighbor.
A woman who died unnoticed on a NYC hospital floor in an upsetting scene recorded by security cameras was killed by blood clots caused by a long period of physical inactivity, according to the city's medical examiner.
Two airborne planes -- one landing and the other taking off -- camewithin a half-mile of colliding at John F. Kennedy InternationalAirport on Friday in the second such incident at the airport in a week,the Federal Aviation Administration said.
High gas prices could turn out to be a lifesaver for some drivers. Theauthors of a new study say gas prices are causing driving declines thatcould result in a third fewer auto deaths annually, with the mostdramatic drop likely to
Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfullysparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stintas President Bush's press secretary, died early Saturday of coloncancer. Snow was 53 years old. He served just 17 months as
T he military has created a wall of silence around its frequent resort to barbaric practices, including torture, and goes out of its way to avoid legal scrutiny. Five photographs together break a silence. The first is of a former
T he chauvinistic American news media have focused on evil Iran's missile tests and the indignant Bush administration reaction, while missing some key causes of the event. As if the Iranians had started the entire dust up, the media reported
E migré scientists many of them Jews who had fled Europe to avoid persecution under the Nazi regime were principal instigators of the United States nuclear-fission weapons program known as the Manhattan Project. In particular, in 1939, a group of
IndyMac Bank's assets were seized by federal regulators on Friday aftersuccumbing to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices andrising foreclosures. The bank is the largest regulated thrift to fail and the second largest financial institution to close in
A mortgage rescue to help hundreds of thousands of strugglinghomeowners avoid foreclosure and get more affordable, safer loanspassed the Senate overwhelmingly Friday, but it faces a bumpy road amidcontinuing turmoil in the housing market.
The government came under fire last year over the treatment ofAmerica's wounded soldiers, when shoddy conditions were exposed atWalter Reed Army Medical Center. The Army has since then overhauled the outpatient program, but many soldiers are still lacking the proper
Just when you thought the mortgage crisis couldn't get worse, news has arrived that two mortgage giants look like they could be in danger of going under. As CBS 2's Anne State reports, local economists say if that happens, we're
